musicluver
11-25-2007, 09:34 AM
So, in the last six months I've decided to change alot and for the better! I decided to stop caring about what others think and have kind of turned into a new age hippie. I'm loving my new lifestyle! Anyway, along with that change I started reading about the environment and realized we're all in quite a environmental crisis. So, I decided to start out slow and become more green for nature and future generations. I started recycling, driving less, using alternative driving routes, wasting less food, stop speeding, unpluging devices, turning off lights when leaving the room, buying alternative products, ect... Well, at first when I told my parents about it they're like no big deal, we'd like to help you and do some stuff too and I thought wow, not only will they support me, they're gonna participate! But, it's getting worse and worse, they call me a tree huggin hippie and don't care about little things they can do to help. They recycle, which is more than some can say for their family, but I've told them simple things like unpluging things can make a big difference in the end, but my dad says he'd rather be able to have quick access to things then to care about what impact it has. I've also suggested taking alternative routes so my mom huge gas sucking SUV doesn't drain the earth of our oil and my mom doesn't care cause this way is "faster," it's only faster by two minuets! I've also told her how much gas it's save if we took off her unused luggage rack and she said that I was getting extreme. Am I the only one who thinks these things aren't extreme or hard to do? Please tell me what a college student's to do until she moves out of her family's house? (by the way I approach my family in a suggestive happy way) I think this is awesome > :heff2: